Plane crashes in N. Arkansas, 2 on board killed

BUFFALO CITY, Ark. 
The Baxter County sheriff's office says two people have died in the crash of a small airplane near Buffalo City in northern Arkansas.

A news release from the sheriff's office said the plane went down about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, starting a fire that was put out by local firefighters.

The sheriff's office identified the victims as 62-year-old Robert Joseph Ross, of Santa Cruz, Calif., a flight instructor for United Flying Services of Watsonville, Calif., and his son, 32-year-old Michael C. Ross, of Austin, Texas.

The sheriff's office said both men were pilots, and investigators don't yet know which of them was piloting the plane, a 1982 Cessna T-210 traveling from Danville, Ill., to Austin, Texas.